• Summer Infant recalls to repair Mother's Touch/Deluxe Baby Bathers. Due to fall and head injury hazard, consumers should order free repair kit. When the bather is lifted and/or carried with an infant in it, its folding wire frame can suddenly disengage from the side hinge, dropping the baby out of the bather, posing a fall hazard and a risk of serious head injury to infants.

• Death of child prompts recall of window blinds by Blind Xpress. Blind Xpress of Livonia, Mich. is announcing the recall of about 139,000 custom-made vertical and 315,000 horizontal blinds. In 2009, a 2-year-old girl from Commerce Township, Mich., reportedly strangled in the loop of a vertical blind cord that was not attached to the wall or floor.

• Nearly 140 child drownings in pools and spas reported by media in summer 2012. Initial summer drowning figures are only part of the annual toll. According to information compiled from media reports and released today by the CPSC Pool Safety campaign, 137 children younger than 15 years drowned in a pool or spa during the traditional summer season of Memorial Day to Labor Day this year. An additional 168 children of that age required emergency response for near-fatal incidents in pools or spas during that period.

• Consumer Product Safet Commission announces Chairman's Commendation Award recipients. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recipients of the second annual Chairman's Commendation Awards. Four nominees were chosen for their significant contributions to consumer product safety.

• Haier America Trading agrees to $850,000 civil penalty for failure to report defective blenders. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Haier America Trading LLC of New York, N.Y., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $850,000. The settlement agreement has been provisionally accepted by the commission. The settlement resolves s that Haier America failed to report immediately to the comission a defect involving its blenders that resulted in nearly 60 incidents and an injury to a consumer's hand. The nut on the blender that holds the blade assembly can dislodge during use, allowing the blade assembly pieces to break apart, and/or crack the blender's glass jar, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.